This book contains a practical manual on owning cattle and sheep, including information on breeds and breeding, foods and feeding, and general management.
This volume contains a comprehensive guide to the honey plants of America, together with information on those which are of special value to the beekeeper as sources of pollen.
This book contains a comprehensive introductory guide to bee-keeping, being a complete index and reference book on all practical subjects connected with bee culture - in both common and movable-comb hives.
This early work on poultry husbandry is a fascinating read for any poultry enthusiast, but also contains much information that is still useful and practical today.
This vintage volume contains a comprehensive guide to thoroughbred racing pigeons, with information on their natural history, breeding, selection, types, and more.
This early work is a fascinating read for any goat enthusiast or historian of the breed, but also contains much information that is still useful and practical for the amateur or professional goat farmer today.
This antique comprises a detailed treatise on the uses of Apis Mellifica - or, the poison of the honey bee - in the treatment of human illnesses and ailments.
Comprised within this text is an account of the natural history and development of pheasant shooting in Great Britain, including detailed chapters on subjects such as rearing, turning, breeding, and hunting tactics.
Contained within this antique book is a comprehensive guide to breeding pheasants and grouse, including a wealth of important information on such topics as preservation, rearing, ailments and treatments, as well as habitat management.
This book contains a complete guide to breeding pigeons for profit, with information on common problems, selection, necessary equipment, ailments and diseases, marketing, and many other related aspects.
After seeing his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge for the first time in years, Jeremy Garnet is dragged along on holiday to Ukridge's new chicken farm in Dorset.
Beginning and intermediate chicken keepers dont need to spend hours poring through extensive manuals and thick booksCarissa Bonham boils down chicken-keeping basics into 101 easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply tips, tricks, and chicken hacks.
Equine Welfare in Clinical Practice: How and Why Behavior and Welfare Assessments Belong in Your Practice reviews the current psychological, behavioral, and welfare knowledge equine veterinarians should have and discusses how such knowledge may be incorporated into clinical practices.
Key features: Stresses safety in handling, restraint, and containment of animalsCovers handling and restraint of all domestic and common tamed animals and provides information on normal animal behavior and welfareDiscusses how to recognize signs in animals of poor handling and containmentReviews zoonotic disease risks to animal handlers, particularly from normal-appearing animals, and how to avoid transmission of diseaseFeatures over 200 informative line drawings for clarity and simplicity of illustrationExplains how to tie useful knots and hitches and when to use them for restraintIncludes basic ethical considerations and legal liabilities of animal handling and containmentPresents steps to prevent animal escapes, barn fires, and problems with transportAuthored by an experienced veterinary educator in clinical medicine for veterinarians, veterinary students, pre-veterinary students, veterinary technicians and technologists, animal scientists, and animal ownersProper handling and restraint are essential to the welfare of captive animals, allowing them to be examined, groomed and treated in ways that contribute to their optimum quantity and quality of life.
Key features:Written by the scientist who named this parasite and was the first to set up proper diagnostic techniquesServes as the first ever book to provide information on the parasite structure, biology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, epidemiology, prevention, and control of neosporosisCovers both approaches toward preventing & controlling this disease: Developing an efficacious vaccine and sound cattle management practicesContains a wealth of illustrations, including many of the author's original photographs of the parasiteProvides basic information on immunologic and molecular aspects of the diseaseAbortion is a worldwide problem in the livestock industry accounting for annual economic losses of billions of dollars, and N.
Biofortification, which can be defined as the process of increasing the content/density of essential nutrients and/or its bioavailability of food with valuable compounds, is a promising means of increasing nutrient intakes.
There is increasing interest in the biology of domestic animals ranging from genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, nutritional physiology, and systems biology.
Naturally occurring salt tolerant and halophytic plants (trees, shrubs, grasses, and forbs) have always been utilized by livestock as a supplement or drought reserve.
Sheep Medicine, Second Edition describes key sheep diseases encountered in general practice along with their diagnoses, treatment, prognoses, control, and, where appropriate, post-mortem features.
The proposed book focuses on one of the most important issues affecting humankind in this century - Peak Oil or the declining availability of abundant, cheap energy-and its effects on our industrialized economy and wildlife conservation.
In the past, wildlife living in urban areas were ignored by wildlife professionals and urban planners because cities were perceived as places for people and not for wild animals.
The 2nd edition of this comprehensive book provides one of the most complete overviews of the aquatic beetles in the family Dytiscidae, also known as predaceous diving beetles.
Blueprints for Tropical Dairy Farming provides insight into the logistics, infrastructure and management required for the development of small and large dairy farms in tropical developing countries.
Australia's Poisonous Plants, Fungi and Cyanobacteria is the first full-colour, comprehensive guide to the major natural threats to health in Australia affecting domestic and native animals and humans.
